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Italian Toddler in Critical Condition After Transplanted Heart 'Burned by Frostbite'
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The envoys of the ministry expected already Wednesday in Naples, then in Bolzano, to shed light on the errors. The little one remains in serious but stable conditions
A two-year-old child, from Italy, is in critical condition after suffering a heart attack. The body that was transported in December from Bolzano to the south of Naples would be placed in an inappropriate container and in direct contact with carbon gas, which led to serious tissue damage. The box was not provided with a thermometer to alert the medical team about the low temperature, says BBC.
Italy is following with suspense the fate of a two-year-old boy who received a heart transplant from a Naples hospital, although the replacement organ was severely damaged by poor storage and refrigeration during transport from the donor. Some experts have spoken of irreversible damage to the organ and its unusability.
It would be considered out of the guidelines acquired by the Public Prosecutor's Office the container used to transport the transplanted heart to the small
A possibly inappropriate transport kit and the use of dry ice instead of traditional ice. Those are, for now, the two key hypotheses that focus research on...
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